With three rounds to go I had to win one game to clinch division C.  I lost all 3 through a mix of bad luck and bad play and finished third.  I attribute part of the problem to a bout of insomnia the night before.  After wkaing up to a thunderstorm at 3 am, I slept intermittently until finally getting up at 6.  Still there's absolutely no excuse for missing DILATO(R)S.  (Yeah it was that bad a day)  For the first 16 games the average scores from my games were 424-348.  For the last 4: 360-413. 

I promised Brett I'd post the games from my collapse.  I feel like I was just unlucky in the first one, but the last two highlight my weaknesses playing on closed boards, where I'm easily frustrated and make bad choices.  So here they are:

Round 18 - Mary K.
Round 19 - Charles R.
Round 20 - Charles R.

And to show that I'm actually capable of playing good scrabble, here's a fun game from the happier part of the tournament:

Round 7 - Adrian M.

The tournament is rated in halves so it's hard to say for sure, but it looks like my rating my break 1400.  It's likely I won't play another tourney before next year's Arden Cup (I really need to finish my PhD in the next year).  Since I'll still be division C nothing's really changed.

My bingos:
AUDITOr
sNARL(I)ER
r(E)HEATED
DALtONS
BRAWLeR
NEUrINE
RETEST(E)D
(E)MOTiONS
GAVO(T)TES
(C)REEPIeR
PIETIES
AViDINS
ABETTED
cYANITE
oVERTAX
TAN(K)ARDS
M(I)NTIEST
rE(S)CORES
LISTENS
(S)TRANgEr
HOTELME(N)
SARODES
PEAhENS
MAESTRI
LANCETS
PROJETS
ANSATED
IRATEST
SNUGGER
TONSURE(D)
DIMNESS
OVERr(I)PE
RUCTION
SALTIRE
VInTAGE



And theirs:
PREVENTS
SENORITA
DAMPEST
INSTATE
A(T)RESIAs
INSIDEs
ANODIz(E)S
EXURbIA
RE(T)REATS
SENARII
DEXTRIn(E)
RUINAT(E)s
FEEBLER
UNITIEs
WR(A)pPING
SEALING
SEN(O)RItA
E(V)ACuEES
At(E)LIERS
ExPLAI(N)S
(T)eNDRILS
MEOUING
(G)RADUATe
RE(C)LINES
TREAD(I)NG
MOIsTLY
TOWAGES
IS(O)lATES